Overview
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''A considerable achievement'' GUARDIAN
''Highly recommended'' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
''Excellent entertainment: an absorbing book'' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
Durraghglass is a beautiful mansion in Southern Ireland, now crumbling in neglect. The time is the present - a present that churns with the bizarre passions of its owners'' past. The Swifts - three sisters of marked eccentricity, defiantly christened April, May and Baby June, and their only brother, one-eyed Jasper - have little in common, save vivid memories of darling Mummy, and a long lost youth peculiarly prone to acts of treachery.
Into their world comes Cousin Leda from Vienna, a visitor from the past, blind but beguiling - a thrilling guest. But within days, the lifestyle of the Swifts has been dramatically overturned - and desires, dormant for so long, flame fierce and bright as ever.
- | Author: Molly Keane
- | Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- | Publication Date: Jun 01, 2006
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9781844083275
- | ISBN-10: 1844083276
